Microsoft Outlook Team Folders
Microsoft has made it official:
The MSKB article
OL: The Microsoft Outlook Team Folders Kit Has Been Discontinued explains that the Team
Folders kit has been discontinued and that no support is available
for existing Team Folders installations beyond a few articles
already in the MSKB. For more information, see
Team Folders kit officially
discontinued.
Despite the lack of support, Team Folders still provides a good
learning tool on how to use a folder home page in Outlook 2000 (or later) to
provide an information overview of subfolders created in
Exchange Server's Public Folders area. With Team Folders,
you can build:
- Threaded discussion
- Document repository
- Team calendar
- Team task list
- Team members contact list
- Other contacts list
- Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
The Team Folders kit includes a wizard to get you
started, plus the Outlook View Control, which you can
incorporate into other projects.
Microsoft
has issued a patch for the Outlook View Control, which forms an essential part of most digital
dashboards, to correct a significant
security vulnerability. See
MS01-038 - Outlook View Control Exposes Unsafe Functionality.
This is a critical security patch for Outlook 2002 users. For
Outlook 2000 users, there is no real data vulnerability.
The patches change the behavior of the control so that the View
parameter no longer works in a web page that is not hosted as an
Outlook folder home page. If
you are using the OVC in a web page, omit the View parameter (e.g. <param
name="View" value="By Category">) in the initial settings for the
control. If you set the View this way, even to value="", more often
than not it will cause the control to default to the user's Inbox
rather than showing the folder you want.
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